There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Friday, August 12, 2016

Brats, Apple Slaw and Corn On the Cob

Aug 12 2016

I am getting tired of this hot humid weather! It is
interfering with my outdoor cooking and my appetite too! With my COPD I get
sapped pretty quickly when outdoors in this weather.

I had some tomato garlic fresh brats from my butcher, a head
of red cabbage from my neighbor’s garden and some fresh picked corn from Suter’s;
it was picked this morning. I was making some of akruckus’s, he is a fellow member of Lets Talk BBQ, apple slaw from the
cabbage.

My Instant Pot 6 in 1 came today so I could try it out
steaming the corn in it. It looks like it is well made.

The brats I planned to smoke for an hour on the Traeger and
then brown up on my Weber Gas Grill. I made up the slaw after lunch; I just used
a half head of cabbage so cut the ingredients accordingly.

About 4 PM we had a downpour for a half hour and got .8
inches. I thought I was going to have to brown the brats inside. I had some
mini sub buns that would do well for the brats, I sliced some off the open edge
and toasted on my gas grill. It all came together well but didn’t get as many
pics as I wanted, I missed the finished slaw but you can see it on my plate.

I had a batch of my homemade Kimchi ready so I had to try
that on my brat. The Kimchi and slaw doesn’t exactly go together but I like it.
AK’s recipe for the slaw is a winner, the apple cider and applesauce dressing
is great on it. My wife loved it and she had it on her brat.

The Instant Pot worked great; I had 3 ears of corn, one long
one I had to halve, and it made one layer on the steam insert. There was enough
room for another layer so you could do six ears in it. It took about 7 to 10
minutes to heat up and then went to timer mode; I had set to 4 minutes. 4
minutes later I shut it off and vented the steam. My wife and I both thought it
was the best corn I have ever made.

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.